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An analysis of the Sargasso Sea resource and the consequences for database composition

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, April 2006
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Title
An analysis of the Sargasso Sea resource and the consequences for database composition
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, April 2006
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-7-213
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Michael L Tress, Domenico Cozzetto, Anna Tramontano, Alfonso Valencia

Abstract

The environmental sequencing of the Sargasso Sea has introduced a huge new resource of genomic information. Unlike the protein sequences held in the current searchable databases, the Sargasso Sea sequences originate from a single marine environment and have been sequenced from species that are not easily obtainable by laboratory cultivation. The resource also contains very many fragments of whole protein sequences, a side effect of the shotgun sequencing method.These sequences form a significant addendum to the current searchable databases but also present us with some intrinsic difficulties. While it is important to know whether it is possible to assign function to these sequences with the current methods and whether they will increase our capacity to explore sequence space, it is also interesting to know how current bioinformatics techniques will deal with the new sequences in the resource.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 6%
France 1 3%
Chile 1 3%
Brazil 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Unknown 26 81%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 44%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 22%
Professor 5 16%
Student > Master 3 9%
Other 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 72%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 13%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Chemical Engineering 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 3%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 September 2006.
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#3,271,948
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#1,220
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#7,046
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#5
of 51 outputs
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